The opportunities to direct Hollywood films are few and far in between. But often, a prospective indie director is plucked after a couple critical hits and thrust into the driver’s seat of a major blockbuster. Just look at Jordan Vogt-Roberts, Jon Watts, or Josh Trank, and that’s just the “J’s”. And when some of them […]
Day: June 2, 2018
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10 Directors Whose First Movies Were Their Best
Anybody that has ever directed a film will tell you it is one of the most difficult things they have ever done. Stanley Kubrick mentioned it is “like trying to write ‘War and Peace’ in a bumper car…” There are some people who started out swinging for the fences with their directorial debut. This list […]
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The 25 Most Intelligent Movies of All Time
This list/article is the fourth in a series arguing that for cinema to-be-and-to-be-taken-seriously as an art form, it must forgo and move beyond Hollywood-like visual-based ways of meaning-formation/understanding into actor-, face-, dialogue-, voice-, emo-tion-, body-, character-, feeling,-, behavior/psychology-, and tone-based ones. Readers are strongly advised to read my three previous articles, especially (though by no […]